From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V4 #431 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Thursday, September 22 2005 Volume 04 : Number 431 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:44:08 +0100 From: Barry Whiting Subject: Re: seven-seas Fw: gigography I'm sure Ivan did a good job on this. Probably lost in translation unless anyone's cache'd it. Zap wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: Brian and Ange > >i am looking for a gigography of the bunnymen,any suggestions? maybe a site >with a full archive? >thanks >Brian ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:46:13 -0400 From: Brian Andersen Subject: Re: seven-seas Fw: gigography right here, with setlists... http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/setlists/index.html On 9/22/05, Zap wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Brian and Ange > To: Owner-seven-seas@smoe.org > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:14 AM > Subject: gigography > > > i am looking for a gigography of the bunnymen,any suggestions? maybe a site > with a full archive? > thanks > Brian > > > > ===================================================================== > Bunnymen Online Presence: > http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info > * > http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ > * > http://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ > * > http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 > * > > ====================================================================== > > - -- - -Brian Andersen bandersen65@gmail.com ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:59:04 +0100 From: Barry Whiting Subject: Re: seven-seas Fw: gigography ........and I completely forgot about that labour of love...Sorry, Kristin... ....//blows brains out with revolver//.... Brian Andersen wrote: >right here, with setlists... > >http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/setlists/index.html > >On 9/22/05, Zap wrote: ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:21:07 +0100 From: "Shaz" Subject: Re: seven-seas www.bcheights.com oh, I thought it was 'coming to get me now' not 'come and get me now' paranoid or desparate, hmmm could be either... - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kristin Smith" To: Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:27 PM Subject: seven-seas www.bcheights.com > http://www.bcheights.com/media/paper144/news/2005/09/22/TheScene/Album.Revie > w.An.Echo.Of.The.80s-994648.shtml > > An echo of the '80s > By Cullen Nutt > Published: Thursday, September 22, 2005 > 2 and half Stars > Echo and The bunnymen > Siberia > (Cooking Vinyl) > Ian McCulloch, front man of the British alt-rock outfit Echo and the > Bunnymen, told Billboard Magazine that he believes longtime fans will be > especially pleased with the band's newest album Siberia. Longtime fans may > be the only ones pleased with the group's latest release. > Indeed, 26 years into its career Siberia is fresh and the production > impressive, but the music itself lacks the innovation to raise many eyebrows > in today's avant garde indie scene. > Granted, McCulloch is right to recommend the record to Echo's older fans - > it will easily take any 30-or 40-something back to his or her youth. For the > rest of us, though, the album can only be respected for what it is - an > admirable, yet inaccessible comeback. > McCulloch and his principle counterpart, Will Sergeant, prove in just over > 51 minutes that they still do have what it takes. The moods are alternately > light - "Of a Life," "Parthenon Drive," - and somber - "Everything Kills > You," "What If We Are?" - and "Stormy Weather," the album's first track, is > anything but stormy. Opening with upbeat guitars, the song progresses into a > simple but solid rock ballad that serves as an excellent preview for the > majority of the record. > The album's eighth track, "Siberia," is haunting, yet remarkably catchy. The > song begins with a bouncy distorted guitar riff that almost gives it a Latin > feel. Synthesized organs add subtle depth in the background as McCulloch > showcases his casual but pleasant vocals. Like many others on the album, the > song features a guitar solo about halfway through; this one vaguely > reminiscent of Carlos Santana. The soaring guitars return at the end of the > song as McCulloch repeatedly whispers "come and get me now / come and get me > now." > Echo's instrumentation combined with McCulloch's singing may remind > listeners of an older U2 sound. > Siberia is nothing painful to listen to, but it lacks the creative > instrumentation or insightful lyrics to make it anything special. Many of > McCulloch's words actually border on the nonsensical. In "Everything Kills > You," for example, he seems to quote right from a rhyming dictionary when > crying "Everything takes you / Everything makes you / Everything fakes you." > Echo and the Bunnymen deserve applause for a solid return, but anyone born > after 1980 should let their parents do the clapping. > > > > ===================================================================== > Bunnymen Online Presence: > http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info > * > http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ > * > http://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ > * > http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 > * > > ====================================================================== ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V4 #431 ********************************